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...even discussing with Premier Carlos Arias Navarro the lineup of military forces that might confront each other in the Spanish Sahara. At one point the Archbishop of Zaragoza, Pedro Cantero Cuadrado, spread across Franco's bed the gold-embroidered cloak that usually adorns the wooden statue of the Virgin Mary in Zaragoza's Basilica of Our Lady of Pilar. As the archbishop described it, the dictator opened his eyes, wept and kissed the cape-which is reputed to have healing powers...
Cynicism about lunar-module-modernity has lapped the American shoreline since before Henry Adams, a century ago, bemoaned the coming of "dynamo" (materialism and industrialization) and the passing of the "Virgin" (the spiritual and aristic heritage of Western Europe). The weeping and wailing still continue as the Druids resurge. But if, as John Fowles would have it, cynicism is nothing more than a failure to cope, Adams' analysis fails. The very artists whom Adams would have expected to keep the icon hanging straight, are coping--by varnishing the Dynamo with super-realism. Warhol handles mass-production by redistributing the colors...
...piling up historical and anthropological data, Brownmiller paints a convincing and awesome portrait of men's cruelty to women. The ancient Babylonians and Hebrews routinely executed married rape victims along with those who attacked them. The Hebrews also stoned to death any virgin raped within the city walls-on grounds that sound suspiciously modern: if the virgin had not wanted the sex, she would have screamed and been rescued in time. An Assyrian whose virgin daughter was raped was entitled to gain justice by raping the attacker's wife. The chivalry of medieval knights included the notion that...
...Virgin Spring, 4:10, 7:30, 10:45; Through a Glas Darkly, 5:50, 9:10, tonight; Wild Strawberries, 4:10, 7:30, The Silence, 5:50, 9:10, tomorrow and Saturday; Shame, 4:10, 7:45, 11:10; Hour of the Wolf, 6:05, 9:35, starts Sunday...
Meanwhile the outburst continues. Emmanuelle's producer, Yves Rousset Rouard, now has a sequel before the cameras, Emmanuelle 2-The Anti-Virgin. It, too, will probably be soft core...